NTSC-U Little King's Story [Black Screen]

Black screen after wrist strap warning. Seemingly a common issue. No threads I have uncovered disclose much useful information.
I've tried every IOS I have on my system, and also every possible setting for the game's load.

Loader: USBGX
Game: NTSC (4.03GB)

Any insight appreciated.

syscheck

Spoiler

sysCheck v2.1.0b13 by Double_A and R2-D2199...runs on IOS58 (rev 6175).

Edit: I did not remove the update partition when transferring to my HDD w/ WBM & the file size was then 4.19GB and it is running now. I'm assuming that I have been dealing with multiple bad rips of the game so I also assume that was the issue for many others having a black screen on this game.